I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin. I am interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. My advisor is Ray Mooney and I work on Textual Inference using Bayesian Logic Programs. I completed my MS thesis with Prof. Jason Baldridge on extracting topics from Twitter based on author and recipient of tweets. In the past I have also worked with Prof. Inderjit Dhillon on analysis of Social Networks. I am a recipient of the prestigious Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Here is my resume.

Developed a Framework using Hadoop and Cassandra for motion detection and classification of the mobile phone user. Map Reduce was used to compute and evaluate on TeraBytes of Accelerometer data.

iStream.com, BangaloreStartup Stint, Jan - July 2012

iStream.com is Netflix for India. Designed and developed the entire analytics stack using Amazon EMR, Hadoop, MongoDB and Hive. The system was used to record and analyse user/video activities on the site.

Yahoo, BangaloreSoftware Engineer-Intern, Jan - June 2011

Increase the reliability of edit machines for Yahoo! Stores by adding a layer of Hadoop Zookeeper server.

Trivia

I was born and raised in the heart of Bombay, India and have always had mixed opinions about the place. Luckily, I got to spend the most beautiful 4 years of my bachelors in Goa at BITS. I love traveling, reading, painting, meeting new people and adventure sports.

Apart from computer science and programming, I am highly interested in learning about international politics and history. In my leisure time, I like reading reddit, comics and daily news.